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Gumlog, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lavonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30553. It stands on Little Crawford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavonia quadrangle. 2,358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Gumlog within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Gumlog grew from 2,146 to 2,358 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,146
20202,358+212 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Gumlog between 1992 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning140
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FRANKLIN-006
5 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN007
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-012
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-010
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Whitworth0.5 miles15
Poplar Grove1.8 miles18
Lavonia3.9 miles15
Fairview6.7 miles15
Salubrity (historical)8.0 miles15
Parhams8.8 miles15
Red Hill9.5 miles13
Vandiver10.4 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GumlogAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2492464The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867242. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.